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Turkey is very interesting in such things. I live in Germany and my parents live in Turkey. No bank in Germany would even think about such things but in I can't shake off the feeling that they just do it. Another cool thing my cousins told me is that they can send each other cash from mobile phone to mobile phone. Say I don't have money on my prepaid card and my friends have enough and don't use it, they just can send couple of bucks to my phone.

I mean I don't use a prepaid card but I think it is awesome! As a student this is a great option!

I hope we see more of this kind of rule breaking things from around the world. Sometimes it feels like the people in the world are getting more and more afraid of change which breaks "common rules". Money transferring is one such crazy issue.
> I think that's exactly the right approach, and a real step forward.

I disagree. I think, sales issues aside, that open standards like HTML5 offer enough to give a good reading experience on most devices. Where it doesn't, that's typically because the device doesn't support the format, rather than the converse.

As for how monetizing this is going to work for Marco, I don't know. Maybe iOS-only is the only way he could get that to work, and that's the right choice for him. If that's true, I still think it's unfortunate.
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They're on a planet, so they'd still have to be transported into space.

Just because they're not on this planet...
This will probably be hard to do in the short term but if MOOCs take off it would be good to actually verify if the reviewer actually has taken the course. I think that's one key issue with Yelp - there is no verification of reviewers so there are a lot of spam issues : http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/09/obama-gets-a-l...

Maybe you can talk to the Udacity/edX/Coursera guys to get some kind of API access? Regardless, this is awesome - I've taken two courses on Udacity, and love it so far. However, there has been an explosion of courses offered so it would be nice to have tools like this to help me filter.
> Convert My Dead-Tree Library to Kindle Books

This won't work. Someone might argue that we have the right to turn our printed books into computer media, but as Google is finding out, this is only true under very particular circumstances.

If we could do this at home with a scanner and OCR software, that would be one thing. But it can't be a walk-in business model -- there are too many thorny legal issues. Someone might convert a book he doesn't "own" in a copyright sense, and promptly try to sell it en masse, after which the storefront book conversion business would be shuttered by legal action.
I'm really surprised as well, as several of those leagues do not allow sportsbooks to use their logos, especially the MLB, which has had several betting scandals in the past.

The NFL also do not grant license requests to use its logo to sportsbook; only certain business partners (and their subsidiaries) may use the NFL logo in association with a sportsbook offering.
> They're on a planet

or a small asteroid, which has a negligible gravity well.
We see the wobble in the star via the frequency of it's light changing.

My understanding is that the assumption of diamond is made by making many measurements of the absorption spectra of the star to try and get an idea of what kind of matter is floating around it as dust and gas and from that trying to work out what the balance of chemistry in that system is likely to be.

You can also look at the star's spectra during a transit of the planet and use that to work out information about the atmosphere and surface.

At the end of the day, they do not know what is inside the planet, this is just their best guess based on what they can measure.
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> Personal army type of stuff?

Not really. Freedom to criticise is a public issue, especially if it is fact-based criticism.
I'm sorry about that. If you're still interested in giving us UX feedback send us an email feedback@getprismatic.com. I'll personally respond to it. Please understand that we're still a small team and we get a lot of emails on a daily basis. :-)
You seem to be mixing "unpleasant to use early on" with git as it is today in order to prove your point.

And to be fair your point is entirely opinion based anyways. You don't like git (fair enough), but you might be getting bashed because it is a lot of people's tool of choice.

Personally I absolutely love Git.
> Meaningful quantities of useful Diamonds are not going to form outside of significant gravity wells so 'asteroid' mining of diamonds is a waste of time.

Meaningful quantities of helium are not going to form outside the center of stars. But that doesn't mean the universe isn't littered with it due to star explosions and such. There's plenty of reason to think that diamond will exist in places that it didn't originally form.
Science isn't about "one overriding idea". It's about "well, this is the best we have so far".
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Funny that it came down to a question of "causal nexus."
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Upfront and honest? He has been caught out lying about key dates when he found out about Dotcom spying, and according to today's paper his revised story is a lie too, as there may be a tape recording of him mentioning something about it considerably earlier.
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It's about striving to integrate everything that can be integrated into a unified system -- which is precisely what Torvalds opposes.
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Girls could well drive space exploration, but not necessarily in the way you might think. Sperm is easy to store.
I think a lot of engineers are trying really hard to produce value for their employers, and that this level of discourse seems to do so but really doesn't.

Your "stakeholders" really only care about their business making money. The truth is, they only care about technical debt/slop if it stops them from doing so.

I'd advise you to stop worrying about things that don't really matter (technical debt vs slop), and find ways to provide real value.
I would agree with you, but for several, very crucial facts:

1) The use of logos without permission. Some of these leagues do not allow the use of their logos in connection with betting. That alone suggests they did not put much research into the legal and business environment they are trying to play in.

2) The website. Are you really going to tell me that a startup which has managed to land licensing agreements with all of those leages can't do better than a website my mother could create in 10 minutes? The lack of effort in the website--the point of first impression of most of their customers--strongly suggests a lack of effort in other areas.

3) Show HN. A startup in this field, somehow snatching up licenses to some of the most popular, heavily betted leagues...and the first we've heard about it is on Show HN? No TechCrunch, no WSJ, no Gambling News, no nothing. No details on the team, on the investors, on anything.

Tomasien, you have a legitimate gripe. But the people behind this website have clearly not done their homework.
> why should he support Android?

Because a huge portion of his potential audience is inaccessible, due to his platform choice.
I'm glad they called out judge Koh's abuses. She should be called out for the ones in the Apple vs Samsung trial as well (the other one).
Ask HN: how do you learn to code right?
I "know" Java, I "know" Scala, also HTML, JavaScript, CSS, some Ruby, some Python etc, took courses, did 12 years of professional work, but still I don't know if I'm doing it right.

I might know Java the language in and out, might pass any test with the highest score, and my code might be readable, might have low bugs, might be well designed, but I have no clue.

I find it so hard to find places that can really tell me what is the "right" way to do it.

for example, I was raised to believe Java OOP has the answer to anything, so I used my share of AbstractBeanProxyFactoryClass and Spring framework and thought this is what I should learn from, then there was Seam which influenced JEE 6, and then I learned about RoR which changed my mind a "little", then Scala, Play, then I learned that all that I was taught is wrong (Singletons, OOP, BDUF, multithreading in Java) or right (depending who you ask)

There are so many places to teach you how to code, I know how to code, I can code anything, but how do I learn to code right? if learning from a successful framework like Spring is "bad" and JEE, an industry standard, is something I should "not" be using as an example, if so many smart, educated, and experienced people are doing it "wrong" how do I know how to do it right?

for example, even the most popular web technologies site w3schools got a lot of criticism, e.g. http://w3fools.com

how do you know the good from the bad? what is the consensus?

what is the best book, open source project, mentor, forum, blog, hackathon, tutorial, podcast, meetup or academic course that taught you the best principles that made you a good coder.

Where can I just look at some code for common tasks with a wide consensus of the "don't" version vs the "do" version?
I had this same problem on my Android phones Chrome browser and went to my laptop for reading.
And if not for trolling, riding around in rusty Toyotas with ak47s demanding "tributes" from villiagers. It's encouraging that we've managed to confine them to the courtroom, but discouraging that we haven't been able to outgrow them altogether.
I don't think adding the TLD is really what should be looked at here. Please consider just making the suggestion not overlay the password box. It should be a suggestion, not a block.
The big banner headline on the page just says reviews for Coursera, Udacity, and EdX. That might mislead people into thinking that is all that is there. Perhaps there should be something that that indicates that others are also included?
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One of the reasons his methodology seems to work is that that's the only one that's allowed to work on that scale. Politics is definitely an issue, and politics is driven by how individual people think on average, and if how they think on average just isn't very good, then only the pragmatic approach can "work". That's not a problem with a system-building approach per se, it's a problem with it given the current state of intellectual development in the culture at large. People prefer a smattering of contradictions to a coherent truth.
> But of course the leagues aren't going to pay attention to indie developers until they are genuine threats.

The NFL and MLB have very litigious IP counsel, who are kept on retainer and paid very generous amounts of money solely to police for unlicensed uses of their trademarks. In all likelihood, they've already got a cease-and-desist for sportschimp working up right now.
A bathroom is a necessity, or a project where you have a definite end goal in mind. An entertainment magazine can simply be ignored in favor of other content.
Thankfully many of the novel solutions that were created in the early days weren't created by people that just wanted a buck.
How do I find the memory usage of an application on Android?
> It is my understanding that apps can no longer publish automatically at all

You are misreading what they are specifically saying. First, we are talking about custom actions. Built in actions that FB provides are still allowed to be auto-published.

Secondly, the restriction is merely on consuming content. You can debate what that means, but performing specific actions can still be auto-shared. However, simply consuming content, using custom actions, will not be permitted.

So, listening to music can still be reported as you listen to music (this is a built in action), but viewing a picture won't fly.
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MVC 4 also allows non-blocking IO. Mark your controller as "async" and use async calls within your controller method.

The evented IO model is nice, but nothing earth shattering. Same can again be accomplished with async IO calls, which are trivially easy in .NET 4.5.
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I'm not saying it's something special, just an example of useful application of SMS in banking.
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An accuracy of a few percent is awesome. It's just that the cumulative accuracy for larger systems becomes lousy pretty fast.
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Thank you for making this comment so I didn't have to.
It's not about "one overriding idea", it's about having a fundamental, unified understanding. Edison was about randomly trying things and see what works, Tesla was about seeking fundamental understanding and predicting what will work.

Picking on Tesla for some error given what he did with the AC motor and other projects is very wrongheaded. You're depending on Tesla right now in many ways. Obviously he was wildly successful; Edison's contributions have all fallen by the wayside.
Large overarching ideas are good for explaining aspects of reality. This does not make them good as the basis for solving complicated problems.
I think there is selection bias, but in the other way. Web programmers, as your typical HN goer sees them, probably tend to underestimate just how many other programmers there are out there, particularly doing Java work.

Beneath the bleeding edge of "what is cool" and "what cool companies use" there is a very large iceberg of people and companies doing/using things that stopped being cool a decade ago.
> When have you ever gone to “Forgot your password” without entering an email first, or having guessed a password? Clicking on this autofills the email you had in the login form...

1) I love reading posts about UI features, but I noticed something ironic about this one: both e-mail and password fields are cleared when an authentication error occurs, so clicking "Forgot Password" will result in a blank e-mail being copied over. If a user bothers to type in their email address, they will probably also try a password and click login at least once before clicking "Forgot Password", so by then the email will be blank again.

2) Another interesting difference is how this site and Quora display user photos. Quora will tell you if your e-mail is not in the system or needs confirmation, while this site always returns an invalid password message, even if the user doesn't exist in the system.

The big UX flaw here is that a photo might frustrate a typical user into trying lots of passwords since their photo shows up when they type their e-mail address, when in fact they don't have an account or used another e-mail to register.
I just created an account and installed the tracking code on one of my sites. I have to say, the UX from sign up through implementation is exceptional, and virtually seamless. I particularly liked the install verification sequence, and the brief yet informative animated introduction to the dashboard. Kudos to your team for creating a product that's such a pleasure to use and look at!

A few very minor nit's to pick: Overall, the login screen is great, but omitting the submit button seems a bit too minimalist. I know what to do because the response of using the Return or Enter or Go key is by now second nature; it might not be as apparent to less geeky folks. Besides, the design choice is jarring given how prominent a button you're using for the password reset flow.

Regarding the visual flow in the sign up process: It's probably already on your list of ToDo's, but the form styling between the join and login screens is substantially different.

After installing your tracking script on both a static page and using the Wordpress plugin, and double checking the installation verification, I had to go through the dashboard introduction a second time. It would be ideal if there was button allowing me to dismiss/opt-out of the intro.

Lastly, I'd suggest experimenting with an additional tier of pricing above the $9 mark but below the custom enterprise level. My intuition is that there's a level where people want more capability but are reluctant to go through the personalized and uncertain "Enterprise" process. Also, it's possible people might be more likely to choose a paid plan if there was more than one option; that's definitely the response I personally had.

Just off the cuff, one version might be:

Free: 1 site, 1 individual

Standard: 3 Sites, 5 team members. $9/month

Premium: 10 Sites, 10 team members, exclusive premium features. $19/month

To be sure, you don't want to cannibalize your Enterprise sales, so it's worth comparing these price and usage points to what data you have in that area.

Finally, grandfathering existing Premium users in this scenario would be as simple as upgrading them to the new level and giving them a $10/month discount for the life of their account.

Good luck, and great product!
Value isn't an intrinsic quality of anything. Humans value things, usually based on their relative utility.

(Likewise, quality isn't an intrinsic value of anything, either. Humans assign qualities to things. There is a buzzword called "quality" which means "homogenized reproducibility")
This is why I love Android. Gives the consumer more freedom.
Since we (two people using it personally beforehand) introduced git at work, the 15 others of them — the kind of folks that swear by the mouse and the GUI — enjoy it so much every day they voluntarily dropped all forms of GUI/VS2010 integration to do everything git on the command line.
Maybe you can answer this for me, since I've always wondered: what happens if your company runs out of money, and you get into an impossible situation where you can't keep paying your employees, but you also can't afford to pay the severance required by law to lay them off?

Does the government throw you in jail? Does it come out of your own pocket? (And what if you personally can't afford it?) Does the company just end up owing everyone a bunch of money it can't pay anyway?
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Hey!

I'm Joris Verschoor, co-founder of bloomsix (mobile games, we're working on a few titles) and publisphere (dutch, print publishing workflow stuff).

I'm visiting New York during the holidays, and I'd like to meet some of the startup / entrepreneurs / investors / designers. Actually just anyone who's interesting :-)

Also I'm looking for a place to stay and to work. So if there's some sort of incubator / beta-haus / desk I can share, that'd be great!

In return I could do just about anything, or just pay. But most of all I like to have interesting and inspiring conversations.

btw, I'm a coder/devop (ruby,lua,java,anything) by nature.
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A true scientist seeks an integrated understanding. Newton related the objects that fall on Earth to the motion of the planets. One big sweeping idea for a wide range of phenomena. That's science.
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> If you cared about the product or whatever you are creating, and the communication between you and your customer/boss/team is good, your goals would be aligned (in most cases), thus making it very hard to miss a really important task.

Ugh, this irks me to no end. What if you really care about your product, but there are so many exciting things for you to work on that you simply can't keep track of them all? It's like he's got blinders on to people who don't have the best memory.
>...why should I give a hoot about people with such crackpot religious beliefs? We pander enough to this sort of nonsense already, and if the student finds it that objectionable maybe she should go to a private school instead.

Seriously? People with religious beliefs you don't agree with aren't entitled to privacy? And if they disagree with the policies they should spend tens of thousands of dollars on a private school?
1. Where's the Login/submit button? I wonder if many people would expect this.

2. What do people think about when you enter your email address and accidentally enter the wrong password: should the next page have whatever email address you initially entered re-displayed? Because the error message (rightfully) doesn't indicate whether the problem was actually with the password or whether you instead typo'ed the email address, would having this re-displayed allow the user to more easily recognize their mistake? (i.e., seeing that you typo'ed your email address is more helpful instead of first thought being that you've forgotten/mistaken your password)???
But if you're working with the understanding that you're not a "mercenary", but would rather only be compensated fairly, it's a different conversation. You're not going to be the guy who jumps for another $5k, or is changing jobs every 6 months.

You can go to some salary sites and check out what they suggest the market should be, and go into your boss talking about that, and your value to the company.

When I hear this though:
>Much lower than average compensation ($95k for 10 years experience, zero equity, bad healthcare & low vacation days)

Followed by:
> high profits

It makes me think that they really don't care about you.
This exactly. DeBeers changed the way Americans value diamonds, adjusting the demand curve upwards, so Americans expect to pay more money for diamonds.
Great project, runs very smoothly in the browser. What graphics library/API (javascript/html5) did you use to build it?
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> Agree. It's refreshing to see something simple and focused on the content: no images, no videos, no fancy infographics, and none of the 'bloatware' that permeates the magazine industry.

HN is also like that.
But engineers know "one overriding idea" never works except in theory

On the contrary, good engineers are not dogmatists. They're open to new ideas and strive for simplicity, which means striving for unified approaches based on empirical reasoning. See Newton.
Linus is not a scientist. He belongs to the most hardcore, practical, utilitarian guild of engineers. He takes what visionaries come up with and actually makes it work for all of us. He's the guy Tesla should've hired to bring Wardenclyffe project to completion.
You're asserting a lot of things without any specifics to back them up. I've been using Linux-based systems for a long time and the quality of the kernel has never posed any sort of practical issue for me.

If Linus had chosen a small team and taken his time to do anything I'm sure the Linux kernel could have ended up like OpenBSD or similar systems. A very high quality OS that takes its time to do everything to the point where users more interested in a practical OS would have looked elsewhere.